Installation Location

The Blue Prairie Forms Basic API lives, by default, in the BPIFORMS account on your multivalue server.   The API lives in the bpi.bp.form directory and should be fully functional, at the time of installation, within the BPIFORMS account.

Exposing the API in your application accounts

If you wish to call the API from another account, the BASIC objects need to be exposed within that account.  The recommended method to be used for exposing the API will be determined by your MultiValue platform using the normal methods appropriate for that Multivalue platform. 

JBASE

To expose the API in another account, the following procedure will work.  However, remember that on a jBASE system, there are a variety of ways that accounts can be configured.  Some installations make use of the SYSTEM to establish environmental configurations.  Other jBASE installations prefer to use UNIX initialization scripts to setup the jBASE environment. 

The main goal in exposing the Blue Prairie Forms API in JBASE is to ensure that two environment variables hold the path to the Blue Prairie Forms bin and lib directories. 

If you use the jBASE SYSTEM file method of environment setup, this procedure will work

For this example, we will assume that the account into which we wish to expose the Blue Prairie Forms API is called EXAMPLE:

Example SYSTEM file entry

FILE=SYSTEM, ITEM=EXAMPLE

0001 D
0002 /dbms/BARCODE
0003
0004
0005
0006
0007
0008
0009 L
0010 10
0011
0012
0013
0014
0015
0016
0017
0018
0019
0020 ESYSTEM_START
0021
0022 /dbms/EXAMPLE
0022 /dbms/EXAMPLE
0023 /dbms/EXAMPLE/bin
0024 /dbms/EXAMPLE/lib
0025 /dbms/BPIFORMS/bin:/dbms/EXAMPLE/bin:/dbms/bin:/dbms/ACCUTERM/bin
0026 /dbms/BPIFORMS/lib:/dbms/EXAMPLE/lib:/dbms/lib:/dbms/ACCUTERM/lib
0027 .:/dbms/ACCUTERM
0028 /dbms/EXAMPLE/MD
0029
0030
0031
0032
0033

The jBASE SYSTEM file is defined on the jBASE website at this URL:  https://www.jbase.com/r5/knowledgebase/manuals/3.0/30manpages/man/sup22_SYSTEM.ENTRIES.htm

For convenience, the definitions for attributes 25 and 26 (as highlighted above) are excerpted here:

025 PATH
026 JBCOBJECTLIST

PATH refers the environment variable $PATH.  This is the normal operating system $PATH variable.  The operating system $PATH variable will be set to the value defined in this attribute.

JBCOBJECTLIST refers to the environment variable $JBCOBJECTLIST.  This environment variable is specific to jBASE and defines the location where subroutine shared objects live.

Some users of jBASE configure their environments using the SYSTEM file but others prefer to control their environment using UNIX scripts.   In that case, you will need to look into the the environment setup scipts (usually .profile or .bash_profile).  For a full explanation of the jBASE Environment Variables, please refer to the jBASE documentation at: https://jbase.com/r5/knowledgebase/manuals/3.0/30manpages/man/env1.htm

UniVerse

To expose the API in another account, the following procedure will work

1. LOGTO your target account
2. SET.FILE BPIFORMS bpi.bp.form BPIFORMS.bpi.bp.form
3. SSELECT BPIFORMS.bpi.bp.form
4. CATALOG BPIFORMS.bpi.bp.form

Unidata

Simple login to the BPIFORMS account and globally catalog all items in bpi.bp.form.